Vista Command Line

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:04:36AM -0400, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> I found the command line. Hit the Start button, and type command into the
> search window. Then the command prompt shows up. It understands ping and
> netstat, but not ls, pwd, or vim. Oh, joy. So I have two questions, now that
> I've encountered MS-DOS (which descended from Kildall's C/PM, and
> Patterson's QDOS. And no, you didn't know that. I'm the first person to know
> that. Ever.) 
> 
> 1. Can anybody recommend a book on MS-DOS?

Wouldn't be that helpful.  You are NOT in fact talking to DOS, but to
cmd.exe (which has a lot more features and built in commands than
command.com on DOS did).  It still sucks compared to a unix shell, but
is also a lot better than what DOS had.

> 2. Can anybody give me a reason for reading such a book?

You are having trouble sleeping?

You could go download the powershell for vista if you want to try their
new powerful command line instead.  The syntax seems a bit weird, but
that is hardly surprising.

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